ok iâm bored and feeling analytical so iâm gonna list every state i think a bunch of CL characters are from! (even if itâs obvious. i just feel chatty) iâll also be sprinkling my own headcanons here n there
Jane Doe: MINNESOTAAA (Not that it was in doubt.) I just think wish we had seen more of it. Show her being a snowball fight master on Mount Whitehead!
Scoutmaster Lumpus: Wisconsin. His parents sound it, and he sort of does too, and Iâm sure his passion for fishing and boating had its origins on the Great Lakes. A lot of you know I headcanon his middle name to be Crawford, after the Wisconsin county, which is actually landlocked. (Isnât that just his luck?)
Edward Platypus: Again, basically canon: a New Yorker, specifically Southern New York. The Bronx, or Queens, if not the City itself? The various accents are supposed to be distinct from each other but Iâm not familiar enough to say which is his. One way or another, heâs got one of the stronger ones (strawnguh ones) for sure. He seems to come from wealth. In my headcanon, the Platypus family own a huge New York-based construction company. That also explains Edwardâs naturally-occurring foreman schtick in âBowling for Dinosaurs.â (âI WANNA EXCAVATE DUH WHOLE CAMP! DIS BOWLINâ ALLEYâS IN THE WAYâA THE DINOSAW BONES, GET IT OUTTA HERE!â)
Samson Clogmeyer: Canonically âten minutes awayâ from Camp Kidney per âS is For Crazy.â So depends on where you place that. Me, I figure if CL is based on Joe Murrayâs childhood camping experiences in California, itâs probably California. Iâve got friends who put it in Wisconsin, and I can vibe with that! Samsonâs got a sort of faint, Wisconsiny accent himself. âMy mahâm.â âSome mahrbles⌠and a boxâa cereal!â
Clam: *gulp* âŚFlorida. He wears a tropical shirt in âWhereâs Lazlo?â and is fascinated by rocks. You could argue that narrows it down⌠not at all. Idk. Heâs got that Florida aura in him. (The good kind.)
Raj: Raj of course comes from India, apparently from the fictional âKafizzle River region.â Rivers tend to be set in valleys, and towns form naturally within rivers and valleys, so I posit thereâs a âKafizzle River Valley,â and he comes from there. His family is âwell offâ and heâs shown to live in a mansion in âTusk Wizardâ (assuming the elephant in the fantasy sequence is indeed him,) so he likely comes from one of the richest if not the richest families in the valley. (His mom also has the softest buns in the whole village. Phrasing his.)
Gretchen: She doesnât have much of an accent but I can see her coming from some swampy Southern state or another alligators typically inhabit. Georgia? Louisiana? We can probably say sheâs not a Florida native because her parents are âenjoying Floridaâ as a visit rather than living there full-time, in âHard Dayâs Samson.â But maybe sheâs also from whatever state Camp Kidney and Acorn Flats are in too, because one of her grandmothers recreationally swims, (if not lives) in a pond not far from them in âTaking Care of Gretchen.â
Wilbert, a.k.a. Beavy: Again, a New Yorker. âSo, Monster, where ya frum?â (Fun fact: that was one of my first verbal stims, that line.)
Slinkman: He claims the swamp in âEdwardâs Big Bagâ was âjust like coming home,â so wherever is typically swampy, thatâs a plausible place. I know itâs a single throwaway line but it opened soooooo many possibilities. I wish we had seen more done with it! (also please check out @/deadbeandropâs art of his parents. iâm looking so respectfully at slinkyâs dad.)
Dave and Ping Pong: A lot of people claim itâs implied theyâre from Canada but I donât see it. Those of you who have read my âLoonlingsâ fanfiction on AO3 know I see them as being either from a New York or Connecticut suburb. I canât describe it, but I often work in Sleepy Hollow, and the place just screams âthemâ to me. Maybe they live in a fictionalized Sleepy Hollow with a Murrayverse-esque name like⌠Dozy Hole.
Ms. Mucus: Texas. No question. Also sheâs divorced. (No, that has nothing to do with this but I just had to stress it. She claims to have never met a man that wasnât from another planet. Whoever her ex-husband is, Iâm sure he lives in fear.)